New Plumbing Contractors, Inc. v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “neither the duty nor the covenant of good faith and fair dealing extend beyond the terms of the insurance contract in force between the parties”
• noting that although an insurer is not a true fiduciary, \special duties” are imposed on it because its relationship 17 with the insured is \akin to a fiduciary relationship” (internal quotations omitted)
• “Even assuming 5 a fiduciary-type relationship exists [between and insurer and an insured], neither the duty nor the 6 covenant of good faith and fair dealing extend beyond the terms of the insurance contract in force 7 between the parties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).